1 gb at least. 512 is minimum. anyway now ddram is cheap enough.

On Sunday 14 September 2003 03:23, ed tharp wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 17:31, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 22:45 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > On Saturday 13 Sep 2003 8:35 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote:
> > > > Am Samstag, 13. September 2003 21:00 schrieb ed tharp:
> > > > > My opinion...
> > > > > Forget all the video cards and sound stuff,,, the 128 meg mem
> > > > > Video card is over kill, and the AC97 6 channel sound should
> > > > > be fine too.
> > > >
> > > > Agree
> > >
> > > OK - sound isn't a problem then.  So, video card and capture? 
> > > There are two issues here - vhs and the current camcorder's
> > > analogue signal, for which I have been advised to use a Pinnacle
> > > DC10+ and V4l, and firewire, which I will need next spring when
> > > we buy a new camcorder.  I have firewire on this box on the
> > > Audigy card, but only a 900 MHz processor (though 512MB RAM).  I
> > > had thought of adding a firewire card to the new box when I buy
> > > the new camcorder.
> >
> > A DC10+ is good i think. Ermmh this is a mjpeg card isn't it ?
> > Sorry for the confusion, i think that is the card that is
> > recommended ny the mjpegtools guys as well. For firewire, some new
> > boards have that onboard. I have bought a firewire extension card
> > for this back then i got my dv camcorder.
> >
> > > I had planned for 512MB RAM - are you saying that's not really
> > > enough?
> >
> > I would say 512 is ok. , f.i. 256 would definitly be to few ram.
> > (my opinion)
> >
> > > > > The real bottle neck is going to be hard drive write speed.
> > > > > during capture that is. my suggestion might be to go with 2
> > > > > different boxes, since capture is one thing and rendering a
> > > > > full different set of problems and bottlenecks. capture is
> > > > > just as fast and accurate as long as the drive keeps up,
> > > >
> > > > Do not agree here really. Today you can capture with a midrange
> > > > recent machine divx in realtime.
> > > >
> > > > > and the quality of the capture card and
> > > > > signal input is more important than video card.
> > > >
> > > > Agree absolutly. Depending on the plans how much will be
> > > > captured with that box, i would even consider to buy a
> > > > dv-capture card. (not a firewire card, but a card that does the
> > > > dv-encoding in hardware)
> > >
> > > Recommemdations, then?
> >
> > See above, sorry for the confusion. The DC10 should be perfect. For
> > exact model i would search trough the mjpeg mailinglist archiv. My
> > thought was just that you shouldn't really consider using a tv-card
> > or the like for capturing.
>
> ahhh,,, this has both sides... the difference in price of an old
> winTV card vs that DC10 can sure make for the purchase of that extra
> 256 meg ram work out easier, and if it was me, I would go for the
> ram, if I was only running 256.
> if you have a wide pipe, I captured a video since we have been
> talking about it. I have recorded with a sony handycam running hi8
> tape, and captured using my wintv card in cinelerra. it might be more
> choppy than normal since I set the capture to 29 frames and was
> installing software at the same time.
> (http://ed-tharp.is-a-geek.org/kayla1.mpg)
>
> > > > >  get all the memory you can stuff on the Mobo (up to around
> > > > > 750, really no advantage above that unless you can go greater
> > > > > than 2 gigs memory) most folks used to swear you had to have
> > > > > fast wide scsi2 hard drives at least, but I am sure IDE udma4
> > > > > or faster, and as large a hard drive cache as available will
> > > > > help.
> > > >
> > > > scsi2 is overkill i would say, the latter you are right again,
> > > > as much disk-space as possible.
> > >
> > > I thought of scsi2, but it's very expensive, so it would have to
> > > be worth a lot more.  I planned a 7200 120GB disk.  It would have
> > > very little on apart from the needs of the job.
> >
> > I have a Samsung 5400 120 Gig with 2MB cache here an plan to buy a
> > second one in near future. 120 Gig = 50 hours dvb mpeg2, does not
> > know how much you have to calculate for mjpeg and how fast the hd
> > has to be. If you plan to make some video dvd i guess you can't get
> > enough. scsi2 i think isn't worth the money here. For a definitly
> > answer i would ask on mjpegtools mailinglist.
> >
> > Steffen
> >
> >
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